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eToro lets UAE users deposit crypto and earn 1% stock rewards
eToro has opened crypto deposit channels for UAE account holders, positioning itself among a handful of regional platforms that permit direct transfers from external exchanges, brokers and blockchain wallets. The trading venue accepts nine digital currencies, spanning bitcoin, ethereum, XRP, USDC, Chainlink, Aave, Uniswap, Polygon and Fetch.ai, which users can funnel into their eToro Crypto Wallet before converting balances to dollars for deployment across stocks, commodities and other traditional instruments. The firm dangled a sweetener for Emirati traders who swap deposited tokens into greenbacks, handing them a 1 percent rebate in their pick of equities listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange or Dubai Financial Market. Credits...
e& UAE unveils world’s first dual-800GE network breakthrough
e& UAE has wrapped the planet's first IP plus DWDM dual-800GE trial, pushing bandwidth thresholds for carriers threading 5.5G networks, cloud platforms and artificial intelligence workloads across the Middle East. The Emirates operator stress-tested end-to-end connectivity, mimicking its EMIX gateway, a regional transit hub serving internet service providers from multiple countries. Khalid Alkhaja, who oversees business and IP core operations, flagged transmission gains alongside reduced latency and per-bit costs, while machine learning algorithms trim power draw by predicting traffic swings. The validation run positions the telco to scale cleaner, faster pipes for consumer, enterprise and wholesale customers tapping EMIX...
Zanu-PF donation empowers Epworth students for a digital future
Epworth High School has received a batch of computing hardware from Simbarashe Manomano, the Zanu PF district chair for Joshua Nkomo, as part of a wider push to embed digital literacy within Zimbabwe's education system and advance the government's upper-middle-income aspirations by decade's end. Manomano framed the gesture as a tool for equal access, emphasizing policy guardrails drawn from national cybersecurity and artificial intelligence roadmaps to protect students while preparing them for technology-driven careers. Headmaster Sylvester Chikwati welcomed the equipment as a catalyst for classroom transformation, arguing that the donation positions learners to compete in modern economic landscapes. He pledged to guide pupils toward...
42,000 pack Rufaro Stadium for Zanu-PF's economic push
Rufaro Stadium drew 42,000 Zanu PF supporters from five constituencies across Harare's Zone 6, where senior leadership delivered conference briefings and unveiled freshly appointed Central Committee figures at the region's sixth inter-district assembly. Provincial commissar Voyage Dambuza insisted the turnout originated exclusively from Mbare, Harare South, Southerton, Hunyani and Churu, where the ruling party controls three of five parliamentary seats. National commissar Munyaradzi Machacha attended alongside Central Committee member Kudakwashe Tagwirei, presidential advisor Paul Tungwarara, war veterans secretary Douglas Mahiya and Harare provincial chairman Godwills Masimirembwa. Discussions centered on economic empowerment...
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's reign is divinely ordained
Paul Tungwarara, a special advisor to Zimbabwe's head of state, told mourners at a funeral in Chinhoyi that President Mnangagwa will retain office until his Vision 2030 economic blueprint reaches completion, describing the leader's tenure as divinely mandated. Speaking at services for Reverend Innocent Chitanda, an Apostolic Faith Mission cleric and Pastors4ED affiliate who collapsed and died days earlier, Tungwarara urged religious communities to back the administration and dismissed rival ambitions as futile until the national development roadmap is achieved. Church leaders at the ceremony reinforced the message, with Pastors4ED founder Idirashe Dongo and AFMOZ president Cossum Chiyangwa calling for unity between congregations and...
Kenya’s Connect Academy graduates first skilled fibre experts
Safaricom and Kenya's ICT Authority have graduated their first class of 48 digital infrastructure technicians through Connect Academy, a program conceived at the Connected Africa Summit to combat the country's shortage of fibre deployment specialists. The three-month intensive combined classroom instruction with mentorship from seasoned professionals and direct exposure to live network environments, drawing participants from the telco's existing technician pool, summit referrals, and open community applications. Employment rates hit 98 percent as Safaricom and allied firms absorbed nearly the entire graduating cohort into their workforces. The initiative feeds Kenya's broader push to sustain a steady pipeline of qualified personnel...
CSquared joins LINX Accra to supercharge Africa’s internet
CSquared has filed paperwork to connect with LINX Accra, the London Internet Exchange's freshly minted peering hub in Ghana, as the pan-African infrastructure firm tightens its grip on regional backbone capacity. The application follows the company's recent deployment of cross-border fibre threading through Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, and Burkina Faso, a terrestrial spine designed to complement subsea routes such as Equiano, for which CSquared operates landing infrastructure in Togo. LINX Accra spans redundant sites at Onix and PAIX, with a third node at Digital Realty's ACR2 facility slated to go live soon, enabling local traffic exchange that sidesteps costly international transit. Jennifer Holmes, chief executive at...
ASUSTOR’s new NAS promises lightning-fast 4K workflows
ASUSTOR has rolled out its Lockerstor Gen2+ desktop NAS range, pairing twin 5-gigabit Ethernet connections with SMB Multichannel to push aggregate throughput toward 10 Gbps for bandwidth-hungry creative shops and compact production teams. The refreshed lineup—spanning two-bay, four-bay and six-bay chassis—leans on Intel Celeron N5105 silicon, accommodates as much as 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, and carves out four M.2 slots for NVMe caching or primary solid-state arrays. Sequential transfers in RAID 5 configurations climbed near 1146 MB/s on reads and roughly 536 MB/s on writes during company benchmarks, while individual bays accept drives reaching 30 TB apiece. The flagship six-bay variant scales to 212 TB across spinning and flash media...
Amazon’s new satellite terminal could replace Earthbound networks
Amazon has launched Leo Ultra, a business-grade satellite terminal delivering gigabit-class connectivity through its low-Earth-orbit network. The phased-array antenna, built without mechanical components, achieves download rates reaching 1 Gbps and uploads hitting 400 Mbps while linking directly into AWS infrastructure and private enterprise networks. The hardware targets remote sectors where terrestrial connections fail, from energy installations to logistics operations and government agencies. An enterprise preview program is currently underway, allowing select organizations to trial the system before wider deployment next year, though commercial pricing remains under wraps.
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